Fri May 11, 2012 Home Stories Editor Scott Kunitz If you have any comments or This week at Rotary - Anita DeFrantz!! She’ll talk about The Olympic Games in London and questions, please contact the the Olympic Legacy! editor. Posted by Scott Kunitz Upcoming Programs Anita L. DeFrantz, an attorney and member of the International Olympic May 11, 2012 Committee and 1976 and 1980 Olympic Anita DeFrantz teams, is the president and member of Olympics the Board of Directors of the LA84 Foundation, which is managing May 18, 2012 Southern California's endowment from Past President's Day the 1984 Olympic Games. May 25, 2012 Dark - Memorial Day Jun 01, 2012 Scholarships Jun 15, 2012 Craft Talks Rotary Club Meeting May 4, 2012 - James Cuno, the CEO of the Getty Center Posted by Scott Kunitz on May 04, 2012 Jun 29, 2012 Dark - getting ready for Dethroning Meeting Cast: View entire list... At the head table, seated at far stage right of the podium we have our Invocator for today: David Snow. Next to David we have Sharon Perlmutter Gavin. Stage left of the podium and here to introduce our Upcoming Events Speaker for today, we have Lisa Alexander. Next to Lisa is our speaker for today, Dr. James Cuno, the CEO of the Getty Center. No Upcoming Events Far stage left of the Podium and here to introduce our visiting Rotarians and guests, we have David Rosenfeld. Our song leader was Pat Bofird with Ken Waltzer on piano, and our greeters were Julia Miele & Moira Doherty. Visitors: We had no visiting Rotarians. Dienna D’Olimpio was a guest of Barb Bishop. Pam Brady was a guest of Jean McNeil Wyner. Leile Taeoffe was a guest of Iao Katagiri. Joseph No-fleet was guest of Alonzo Hill. Karen Perlmutter was a guest of her twin sister Sharon Gavin. Joan Behrens April 13, 2012 Alan Monroe March 30, 2012 Santa Monica Rotary Club’s 90th Anniversary Slide Show Santa Monica Rotary Club’s home makeover effort Announcements: at Upward Bound House We had 250 people in attendance last Sunday, and it was a great party. Unfortunately, Tom is not here to receive his Puerto Rico well-deserved accolades, but he sent me a list of all who District Humanitarian Trip's contributed. First and foremost we need to thank Tom and main project Stephanie Loo, who opened their home to 250 of us. But he didn’t do it alone. David had every one who was on distributing 110 wheelchairs Tom's committee stand and be recognized. This year Tom invited sponsors to help with the cost of the party, and he received contributions from all corners of the club. The Rotary Club of Santa Monica lawyers sponsored the bar… pun intended. The non-profits Service Since 1922 sponsored the delicious Indian food. The National Bank of represented by Meets Noon Most Fridays California Dick Lawrence and Rick Mateus, sponsored the music. Other members made direct Riviera Country Club contributions, and we thank you, as well. Michael Cates 1250 Capri Drive and staff set up the trampoline, and the Menzies allowed us to use shade covers from Carlthorp. We also had a Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 large contingent of Rotaractors, led by Lynette Shishido. Sharon Gavin - 2nd Senior Book Drive. Please bring in your books starting next week. The will be distributed to the Senior Centers in Santa Monica. Deadline is 6/8/12. Bret Carter - still able to become a Paul Harris Fellow for only $250. Bret Carter - they are beginning to look for sponsorship for the Wine and Food Festival. Survey Time - make sure you fill out your survey. Recognized everyone who attended the District Conference. Spyros, thank you for the annual baklava, thanks to all of you for your support, and thanks to my vice Presidents, Mitch and Myles, you can see that I have attached the nine awards we received to the banner. You can be proud of our achievement this year. Fines David Poter - shown a picture that was titled 'Boy Toy' and given the choice to pay $50 to keep it off the internet, 49.99 to have it framed or $79.99 to have it listed in three search engines. David wanted it on the internet. Here you go David. That will be $79.99. Frank Lavac - $50 publishing fee for his photo of a sea anemone in the February 16th Malibu Times. Connolly Oyler - had his fined reduced to $75 for an article published in the Santa Monica Mirror since he mentioned Rotary. Connolly argued that the publisher should be held accountable for the article, but the jury was not convinced. Ken Walter - was fined $50 for attending a 'Medical Convention' in Napa. Presentation James Cuno was born on April 6, 1951 to an Air Force family in St. Louis, Missouri. After living in Louisiana, Ohio, Florida, Washington State, California, and Bermuda, Jim returned to California with his family and attended high school at Travis Air Force Base. After graduating in 1968, Jim attended the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs for one semester. Preferring travel to military school, he left for London, where he worked as a short-order cook and hitchhiked up and down the U.K. In the fall of 1969, he started university at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. After one year, he returned to Europe to study at the European Studies Center of Miami University of Ohio in Luxembourg. Ideally suited for inexpensive train travel, Jim was as often as not in Paris, Frankfurt, and Munich. It was in Paris that he first went to an art museum. Jim returned to Willamette in the fall of 1971 and two years later graduated with a B.A. degree in History and moved to San Francisco. There he worked in the warehouse of Design Research Inc., and drawn by contemporary theater (he acted a little at Willamette) he produced and acted in a program of short plays for voice in a dance studio in Berkeley. There he met the tape-music composer Tony Gnazzo, through whom he met and worked with composers John Adams, Charles Amirkhanian, and Ingrahm Marshall, among others. Wanting to work more in theater, Jim returned to Willamette and worked as a janitor and acted in and produced a number of new performance programs in the university theater. Two years later, facing a slim future as an actor/janitor, Jim applied to the M.A. program in Art History at the University of Oregon and was accepted. At the same time, with Tony Gnazzo and John Adams, he formed a neo-Dada theater/music group, “The Unfortunate Duck,” which performed in art galleries and universities from Vancouver, B.C. to Mills College in Oakland, California. There was no second tour. In 1977, Jim married Sarah Stewart, whom he met at Willamette where she was a theater student (from which she went to work in the costume department of the American Repertory Theatre for a season). A year later Jim completed his M.A. at Oregon, writing a thesis on the work of the Russian constructivist, Vladimir Tatlin. And in the fall, Jim and Sarah moved to Boston, where Sarah studied theater at Boston University and Jim, art history at Harvard. (Sarah took her M.Ed. degree from Harvard in 1981.) While working on his Ph.D. on the 19th-century French publisher of prints and printed journals, Charles Philipon (which took Jim, Sarah, and their newborn daughter, Claire, to Paris for a year, 1981-82), Jim worked as the Assistant Curator of Prints at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum. In 1983, Jim, Sarah, and Claire moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, where Jim took a job as an Assistant Professor in the Art Department. Kate, Jim and Sarah’s second daughter, was born a year later and Jim completed his Ph.D. in 1985. In 1986, Jim, Sarah, Claire, and Kate moved to Los Angeles, where Jim became director of UCLA’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and taught art history. Three years later, the family moved again, this time to Norwich, Vermont, across the river from Hanover, New Hampshire, where Jim worked as the Director of Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art and taught art history. In 1991, the family moved once again--and for the final time as a family—to Lexington, Massachusetts, as Jim took up the directorship of Harvard’s Art Museums (the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museums) and a professorship in the Department of Fine Arts. Jim served in these positions until January 2002, when, with Claire and Kate in college, Jim and Sarah moved to London where Jim took up the position of Director and Professor of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Eighteen months later, Jim and Sarah returned to the U.S. where Jim took up the Presidency and Directorship of the Art Institute of Chicago, a position he held for seven years. In August 2011, Jim became the President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. For years, Jim has lectured and written widely on museums and cultural and public policy. Since 2003, he has published three books with Princeton University Press—Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public’s Trust (author and editor), Who Owns Antiquity: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage (author), and Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate Over Antiquities (author and editor)—and another with the University of Chicago Press, Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum (author). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.